The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-29
PERSONA.


city.
Prof. II. P. Mcdonald of Gold Hill, Neva-
da, is visiting his old home in Calais
Mr.. j. NJ. S. Hunter, editor of the Farm
ington Chronicle, is in the city
A. p. Wiswe.l of Ellsworth, formerly Bank
Examiner, is at the Falmouth.
County Attorney Seiders will start this
morning on trip to Ohio and other Western
States.
Prof. A. t. Sally of Hillsdale Michigan, a
native of Maine, is spending his vacation at
North Madison.
Major Charles Sawtelle of the United
States army, native of South Norridge-
wock, is spending few days in Maine.
Mr.. w. II. A. Davidson, representative of
the National Ventilation Company, manu.
facturers of Barney's Compound Ventilating
Wheel, is in the city.
Lieut.. Smythe, executive officer of the u
S. Revenue steamer Woodbury., is passing a
vacation in this city.
c. F. Kimball of Chicago, formerly of
Portland, is stopping att the Falmouth
Hotel
Hon. Elliot Wood of the Governors Coun-
Gil, has just returned from trip West He
went as far as Minnesota.
Rev. G. NJ p. King. d. d. of Washington,
ID. O., who is spending the summer at Great
Diamond Island, was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. George Tonguay, well known here as
an employee of the Dominion Steamship Co.,
died suddenly at Quebec. Goth inst.
DIR. Addison S. Thayey, who has been as
sistant house physician at the Maine General
Hospital, will settle at Berlin, New Hamp-
shire. ne
A reunion of all the people in New Eng
land bearing the name of Partridge will:be
held at Grange Hall, Prospect, Me-, on Aug.
oath.
Judge Maurice Blake of San Francisco,
visited Belfast last week. He was formerly
resident of Camden, is graduate of Bow
dom College, and has been Mayor of San
Francisco
Hon. N. B. Buxton of Sioux City, Iowa, is
spending few weeks in Maine. Mr.. Bux-
ton formerly lived in North Arson and rep
resented Somerset county in the Senate in
1881. He is now engaged in insurance and
real estate business.
Miss Elwood of Boston, owns one of the
bhO hhoct dteiuCbtfC CObtdSco db DAT I1IIif1r
Miss Elwood, who is membere<of the Mt.
Desert Canoe Club, has q convenient boat
wharf built for her 9Se, and paddles her birch
bark canoe with Remarkable ease and grace.
Inc oia gentleman, nearly eighty years
oid, w96sheroically plunged into the water In
ifvain attempt to rescue little Neddie Taylor
who was drowning at Squirrel Island, We'd
nesday, was Captain John Wolston, former
resident of Bath
Mr.. Charles Stanfield, superintendent Of the
Metropolitan Insurance Company, celebrat-
ed his birthday Wednesday evening, and
was presented with an elegant gold headed
cane by the Portland staff of the company.
There was music, good supper, and capt.
tai time generally.
Hon. S. w. Matthews. Commissioner of
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, arrived in
Portland yesterday. He called on Mr.. w.
I'll. Looney and some Of the manufacturers
who are interested in the labor problem. Mr..
Matthews reports that the work of his bu-
he will be ready to make his first report some
tine next January or February.
Inspector o. A. Batchelder, of this city,
of the First Light House District, has gone
TO Bangor for the purpose of inspecting the
working of the new Close fog bell, with a
view Of placing them along the coast, If they
shall prove satisfactory. The trials of the
bell so far have shown that the bell is one of
the best. If not the best, fog bells yet in
vented.
The society people of Bath, according to
tho Timae ara rnuob axaroioad haoanoa Nfr
Will Ledyard, one of Baths most promising
young men, and Miss Edith Chase of Edge
comb, went quietly to Dover. n. H., Tues
day and were there married. Bath people
temper their CONGRATULATIONS with the regret
that there was not IAN elegant society we'd
ding and an event of general jubilee"
The Machias Union chronicles the good
fortune of citizen of Pembroke, Mr.. S. S.
Small, who few years ago went to Mime
apolis poor and in debt, but now returns to
his native town at the age of 3S with half a
million dollars. The Union says that Mr..
Small intends to purchase lot, erect build
ing thereon, and furnish library, the whole
at cost Of not less than ten thousand dol
lars, and donate it to Pembroke for the use
of the inhabitants, and as a free public Ii
brary.
The faculty of the East Maine:Conference
Seminary at Bucksport, has been recently in
creased by the election to the English de-
partment Of Miss Jennie P. Flood, A. M,
for some years the preceptress of Freedom
Academy. Mr.. Frank M. Austin, "a graduate
of the Ohio Wesleyan Seminary, and late
tutor in that institution, will have charge of
the department of Greek and Execution the
coming year; and Miss Jennie E. Weller,
graduate of Syracuse University, will con-
duct the department of music.
Among the speakers announced for the
temperance camp-meeting at Lake Anasa-
gunticook, next Saturday and Sunday, are
Mrs. Z, E. Cain, State Superintendent of Ju-
venile Temples. Rev. S. F. Pearson of Port
land, Col. w. I. Eustis of Dixfeld, Jordan
Rand of Lisbon, La Forest Howe, w. S.
Robinson, Hon. L. T. Carleton of Winthrop,
Volney b. Cushing of Bangor, General Neal
Dow and others. Mrs. Ada Cary Sturgis is
specially engaged for Sunday, and Miss Ber-
tina Webb, violinist, and other talent will be
present.